Saturday, February 14

Students voice opinions on USAC divestment resolution

Editor’s note: Because of the offensive nature of discussion around this article, commenting has been closed. Lines of students stretched the length of Ackerman Grand Ballroom Tuesday night as an impassioned discussion unfolded about a controversial undergraduate student government divestment resolution. Read more...

Photo: Michael Reyes, a fourth-year English student, was one of many students who spoke at Tuesday night’s Undergraduate Students Association Council meeting to express his support for the divestment resolution. Hundreds of students spent hours advocating for and against the resolution. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin)


Chilean student activists to speak at UCLA Wednesday

Three Chilean student organizers will speak at UCLA on Wednesday to advocate for social revolution and access to free education. The Student Collective Against Labor Exploitation, or SCALE, will host Gabriel Gac, Pablo Silva and Melissa Feritto, anarchist student organizers who have participated in a series of Chilean student protests in recent years. Read more...

Photo: (Courtesy of Gabriel Gac)



Students mobilize in response to divestment resolution

Students are mobilizing for and against a resolution that calls for divestment from companies that profit from the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. The Undergraduate Students Association Council is set to vote Tuesday on the resolution, which asks for the University of California to divest from specific companies that the resolution claims are complicit in the human rights abuses of Palestinians. Read more...


Interaxon inspires fifth-graders with science event

Fifth-grade student Robert Ibar stood at a table holding a steering wheel – a piece of a real race car. Ibar smiled widely as he talked about the color scheme he submitted for UCLA Racing’s 2014 competition car. Read more...

Photo: Interaxon, a UCLA student group, hosted an event on Monday to encourage elementary school students to be excited about science and pursuing a higher education. (Gaby Cabalza/Daily Bruin)


UCLA student law group seeks improved campus climate

The UCLA Black Law Students Association met with the law school dean Monday about possible ways to improve campus climate for students of color. Students in the association discussed a letter they drafted to Law School Dean Rachel Moran and a petition that they launched on Friday. Read more...




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